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We analysed NZ Twitter users’ language during lockdown – with surprising results

  • Written by Andreea S. Calude, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Waikato
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Social media has the reputation of being spontaneous, rushed, prone to typos and ungrammatical sentences, and generally a linguistic disaster. And some of it is. However, analysis of Twitter posts on the topic of COVID-19 suggests there is more to social media language than first meets the eye.

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